LEGISLATION: Self-described "Designer" of AB4x1 (1940), which removed the Communist Party from the ballot in California.

LEGISLATION: Author of SB ??? (1955) which requires teachers who have been Communists since 1945 to register with their school districts. (signed by Gov. Knight on July 6, 1955.)

LEGISLATION: Author of SB 1367 (1953) known as the "Dilworth Act" which allowed school boards to discharge Communist teachers.

LEGISLATION: Author of SB 512 (1949) which funded the construction of the UC Riverside campus. Dilworth is known as the "Father of UC Riverside".

PLACENAME: Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary (Home of the Dragons) is located in San Jose.

QUOTABLE: "Liberty is never lost to a nation until it is lost in the souls of the men who compose that nation."

QUOTABLE: "It is often true that many things which, in the end, bring benefits and satisfaction are very difficult to get started in the beginning. So it is going to be hard to save America from those who are pushing us and taxing us downhill into a form of state socialism. And there is no time to lose."

QUOTABLE: "I feel safe in asserting that it is both obvious and apparent that we, today, are the beneficiaries of the courageous past achievements of our forefathers in political liberty and political institutions... In our hands rests all that is precious in America... We are, you see, the trustees of the future. It is your high privilege to preserve the best in America, to improve it, and pass it on to posterity, your children and mine. We can, in honor and integrity, do no less."

The above quotes can be found in "What is Our Constitution For?" an essay published by the State Senate as part of the Constitution of the State of California in 1961)

Source: California Blue Book (1938), (1954)Source: "What is Our Constitution For?" by Nelson S. Dilworth, Constitution of the State of California (1961)